Example sentences of "of [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | In light of the many problems connected with the passage of title as a basis for the right to sue , the Law Commissions recommended allowing the lawful holder of a bill of lading to sue the carrier in contract for loss or damage to the goods covered by the bill , irrespective of whether title to the goods passed by reason of the consignment or endorsement . |
| 32 | The contrast between the bare and to infinitive constructions with bid can therefore be stated in terms of whether compliance is taken for granted or not . |
| 33 | For instance , there is no exploration of whether gender identity can be constructed in this way or what told these people that they were not the ’ right ’ sex . |
| 34 | This immediately raised the question of whether documentary realism is therefore inherently more political than fiction or avant-garde cinema — a useless question as it turned out . |
| 35 | It follows first that there can be no measured change in productivity , irrespective of whether government productivity grows in practice , and secondly that the relative price of government services tends to rise over time . |
| 36 | Given the likelihood of a rich set of different types of molecule , including carbon compounds , the question arises of whether life could have developed and exist today in such regions . |
| 37 | Both these examples raise issues other than the question of whether support is one-way , but they do indicate that there certainly have been historical circumstances in which people have felt that the requirement to provide financial support to parents , in circumstances where they were apparently unable to reciprocate , went well beyond their normal expectations of support between kin . |
| 38 | One of the polarisations which took place has centred on the question of whether management development should be focused on the provision of specific tools/skills for managers ( a competency model ? ) — or whether it would be more appropriate to set out along a more generic path which emphasised the attitudinal and interpersonal aspects of management . |
| 39 | This raises the question of whether octreotide increases sphincter of Oddi pressure , rendering ductal cannulation more difficult . |
| 40 | He needed to be sure that current arrangements were working as well as possible before the Government 's review next year of whether competition in basic telecoms should be extended beyond the two companies . |
| 41 | There is the difficult issue of whether use as opposed to disclosure constitutes breach . |
| 42 | Whether recovery sleep after two nights loss of sleep was restricted by excluding Stage 4 sleep or most of REM sleep seemed to make no difference — subjects returned to pre-sleep-loss levels of performance regardless of whether recovery sleep was uninterrupted or selectively deprived . |
| 43 | This organisation has since been in correspondence with Neil Kinnock 's Westminster office , but has yet to receive any clear indication of whether Labour would indeed reduce the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 16 . |
| 44 | Of course , the question of how the identity of objects is coded is separate from the issue of whether object recognition is localized to these high levels of the visual system at all . |
| 45 | If anything has changed in the attitude of modern theorists towards discipline and obedience , it is not the fundamental issue of whether discipline is necessary , since almost everyone would agree that some discipline is indispensable . |
| 46 | At the heart of the row is the question of whether pay-TV should be introduced to generate immediate cash to finance the cabling network . |
| 47 | She asked the court to refer to the European Court the question of whether Article 59 of the EC Treaty could be taken as meaning that a member state could bar the giving of information in its territory about services in another member state that were illegal in the first country . |
| 48 | The issue of whether insider dealing is efficient or inefficient is problematic . |
| 49 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 50 | This then forces a consideration of whether investment can then improve the SBU 's competitive stance or not . |
| 51 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 52 | Another important aspect of this is the issue of whether community economic development was merely a palliative measure with limited potential for addressing the problems of unemployment and deprivation experienced in areas such as West Belfast . |
| 53 | It is that of whether Christianity is ethical . |
| 54 | The resulting pressures on children in getting to the better universities and the question of whether access is open will be considered later . |
| 55 | In relation to the second requirement , if a particular date has been stipulated for payment then an action can he maintained after that date irrespective of whether property has passed to the buyer . |
| 56 | Unless the parties agree otherwise , he has the right to take delivery upon payment of the price and to do so irrespective of whether property has passed to him . |
| 57 | For example , the question of whether accounting is or should be the same for a public limited company as for a private company has never unduly concerned accounting theorists . |
| 58 | Indeed , the aim of the article is to raise the question of whether consent is a proper conceptual tool for the analysis of medical-legal problems , by considering its use and usefulness in one particular area . |
| 59 | It may be committed where sexual intercourse takes place between a man and his daughter , sister , or half-sister , mother or grand-daughter irrespective of whether the relationship is traced through ‘ lawful wedlock , ’ and irrespective of whether consent is present . |
| 60 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |